U.S. stock futures eased early Wednesday, as investors kept watch on an increasingly tense situation between the North Korea and the U.S. A spokesman for the Strategic Force of the Korean People’s Army said early Wednesday that a plan to strike a U.S. military base in Guam was being considered. That came hours after President Donald Trump warned of a “fire and fury” response to North Korea if it threatened the U.S. S&P 500 index futures fell 5.8 points, or 0.2%, to 2,467, while Dow Jones Industrial Average futures eased 15 points to 22,015. Nasdaq-100 futures slid 16.25 points, or 0.3%, to 5,901.75. Asian stocks also fell across the board, while perceived safe-haven assets gold and the Japanese yen , rose.
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